RE: Big gods came after the rise of civilizations
April 8, 2020 at 12:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2020 at 12:06 pm by Mr Greene.)
(April 8, 2020 at 10:54 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There are alot of issues with the moralizing god hypothesis, which the author of the paper alludes to generally and in a few specific examples relevant to their analysis.
The food and trade bit, though, is under the header of ritual observance....which would probably come as a surprise to alot of folks, lol. It's also the source of things like breaking bread - and in a more ceremonial form, transubstantiation.
We probably don't see dinner as a ritual in our everyday lives, but to an anthropologist, it is. An artificial behavior that serves the purpose of highlighting and reinforcing the most personal social ties that bind. Behaviorally equivalent to any church service.
Not in the sense of individuals 'rituals' but in the logistics of actually generating a civilization through agricultural surplus and distribution of excess food through trade.
Without excess food production and distribution there couldn't be specialists in construction, armed forces, art, entertainment, writing, etc.
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